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Non-Fiction

relayerbob

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4. Unless it is your personal art ...

Reply to CTyankee (Original post)

Wed Mar 1, 2023, 03:19 PM

Mar 2023

It violates copyright law. Nothing new. It is illegal and unethical. Period. Similarly, it is not legal, nor ethical, to steal someone’s music and give it to your friends, for profit or not. The fact they didn’t catch it the first time is irrelevant. Saying it’s for private us is also irrelevant.

Intellectual property is that person’s product, and using anyone else’s art, software, words, poems, designs, or anything else, of any kind, for your personal distribution, without the owner’s explicit written permission, is illegal, and is no better than stealing someone’s car, even if you are not planning to strip it for parts.

If it is YOUR art, then all you need to do is provide evidence of your copyrights to it. QED

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need a private publisher for my book [View all] CTyankee Mar 2023 OP

I am willing to do this. And to state it is for private use only. CTyankee Mar 2023 #2

You are paying them to copy the art and sell it to you Effete Snob Mar 2023 #3

Book Baby did my first book which was the same format and type of content. CTyankee Mar 2023 #6

Was all of the art in existence prior to 1923? Effete Snob Mar 2023 #9

no. Some of the later works were in the 50s and 60s. CTyankee Mar 2023 #10

Unless it is your personal art ... relayerbob Mar 2023 #4

Not that it matters, but my book shows the art and discussses the artist's ideas, motivation, etc. CTyankee Mar 2023 #5

That someone has posted art on the internet is also not relevant relayerbob Mar 2023 #7

This would be typical of what I write: CTyankee Mar 2023 #8

It's complex relayerbob Mar 2023 #11

I thought about having BB make just one copy and then I could pass it around at family events. CTyankee Mar 2023 #12

Going back to the argument "no better than stealing someone's car." CTyankee Mar 2023 #13

Actually, no, not correct relayerbob Mar 2023 #14

Stolen art is one of my favorite subjects. People who want to steal it usually do so thinking CTyankee Mar 2023 #15

You are intentionally bypassing the point relayerbob Mar 2023 #16

Thank you for your comments. CTyankee Mar 2023 #17

Since you have "mentioned" this, I will call your attention to this: CTyankee Mar 2023 #18

Don't equate yourself with the National Gallery of Art relayerbob Mar 2023 #19

Moi aussi. CTyankee Mar 2023 #20